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The Kerr effect in the vicinity of the transition from the isotropic to smectic a phase. / Polushin, S. G.; Rogozhin, V. B.; Ryumtsev, E. I.; Lezov, A. V.
In: Russian Journal of Physical Chemistry A, Vol. 80, No. 7, 01.07.2006, p. 1016-1020.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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T1 - The Kerr effect in the vicinity of the transition from the isotropic to smectic a phase
AU - Polushin, S. G.
AU - Rogozhin, V. B.
AU - Ryumtsev, E. I.
AU - Lezov, A. V.
PY - 2006/7/1
Y1 - 2006/7/1
N2 - The equilibrium electrooptical effect in the isotropic phase of seven liquid crystalline substances (4-n-decyloxy-4′-cyanobiphenyl, carbosilane dendrimer of the fourth generation with cyanobiphenyl terminal fragments, and the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and tenth members of the homologous series of 4-n-acylphenylene 4′-n-alkoxybenzoates) was studied. The smectic A phases were found to exhibit weaker divergence of the Kerr constant in the vicinity of the T c isotropic melt-liquid crystal phase transition temperature compared with the nematic phases. The difference between T c and the temperature T*of the virtual second-order phase transition varied from 3.2 to 19.0 K for the smectic A phases, which substantially exceeded the value (T c-T*) ≤ 1 K for the nematic phases. A theory of the electrooptical properties of isotropic melts in the vicinity of the T c temperature of the phase transition from the isotropic to smectic A phase is developed. An equation relating the T c-T*difference to the phenomenological coefficients of the expansion of the Helmholtz energy of an isotropic melt into a series in powers of the coordination and orientational order parameters is obtained.
AB - The equilibrium electrooptical effect in the isotropic phase of seven liquid crystalline substances (4-n-decyloxy-4′-cyanobiphenyl, carbosilane dendrimer of the fourth generation with cyanobiphenyl terminal fragments, and the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and tenth members of the homologous series of 4-n-acylphenylene 4′-n-alkoxybenzoates) was studied. The smectic A phases were found to exhibit weaker divergence of the Kerr constant in the vicinity of the T c isotropic melt-liquid crystal phase transition temperature compared with the nematic phases. The difference between T c and the temperature T*of the virtual second-order phase transition varied from 3.2 to 19.0 K for the smectic A phases, which substantially exceeded the value (T c-T*) ≤ 1 K for the nematic phases. A theory of the electrooptical properties of isotropic melts in the vicinity of the T c temperature of the phase transition from the isotropic to smectic A phase is developed. An equation relating the T c-T*difference to the phenomenological coefficients of the expansion of the Helmholtz energy of an isotropic melt into a series in powers of the coordination and orientational order parameters is obtained.
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U2 - 10.1134/S0036024406070028
DO - 10.1134/S0036024406070028
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33750196574
VL - 80
SP - 1016
EP - 1020
JO - Russian Journal of Physical Chemistry A
JF - Russian Journal of Physical Chemistry A
SN - 0036-0244
IS - 7
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